The Glory of the Pharaohs by Arthur Weigall. 1923. First Edition. buy

The Glory of the Pharaohs by Arthur Weigall. 1923. First Edition.

Rare book.
Decorative cover with gilded buy elements. Illustrations. Overall in good condition.

Some wear on cover. Spine has wear on top and bottom and some fading on the title.


Arthur Weigall (1880 – 1934) was an English Egyptologist, prolific writer and a show businessman and lyrics writer. His fascination with ancient Egypt started from early age. Weigall entered New College, Oxford, 1900; but, finding that Oxford had no department of Egyptology, he left it after a short residence to become, in 1901, assistant to the famous Egyptologist, Flinders Petrie, first at University College London and then at Abydos in Egypt, in Egypt, on the staff of the Egypt Exploration Fund. In 1914, just before WWI, he returned to London, where worked in the theatre and cinema, and was a film critic journalist for some time. As a journalist working at the Daily Mail, he came back to Egypt in 1923 to cover the opening of KV62, the tomb of Tutankhamun, which was discovered by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon a year earlier. Weigall later went to America and was married twice. Even though, Weigall spent most of his time following the break of WWI in Britain and the USA, he continued to write about Egypt; and his writings included archaeological subjects, but also historical and romantic novels.

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